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...BOTTOM LINE: An unsung but first-rank regional stage scores with vibrant absurdism about a bonkers family...
...Kronauer Space--a cramped, dingy, dark and dank recess somewhere off the vibrant labyrinth of the Adams House tunnels--provides the ideal stage for Jean Genet's Deathwatch, a play set during the 1940's in a cell-block of an unspecified French prison. Genet's drama percolates with modernist tensions of alienation, violence, passion and, of course, nihilism. These tensions play themselves out within the network of complicated relationships which inevitably arise when you cram three male convicts into a dark cell in the basement of Adams House...
...landscape. But these are early days, and Rothenberg has a gift for mulling over diffuse impressions and suddenly pulling them together in one piercing image of near hieroglyphic force. A recent example is Blue U-Turn, 1989: an androgynous body, huge in scale and bent into an inverted arch, vibrant with sparkles and detonations of cobalt and ultramarine, swimming in deep marine space. It seems powerful and benign, dispelling the angst of her earlier work. It transcends Expressionism. Only a major talent could have produced...
...Desire" also shows off the vibrant, stylish production Almodovar is justly famous for. The movie plays slyly with dubbing and visual perspective in a way that never comes off as precious; Almodovar is careful not to let his tricks upstage the story he tells. Half romance, half horror flick, "Law of Desire" displays a ferocious energy sadly lacking from Almodovar's more recent efforts; it showcases the full talents of a director who can make audiences squirm...
...means virtually everything. Seamstresses are hunched over exquisite embroidery. Bodice? Belt? So far the delicate pieces have no discernible shape. The designer, a robust, immaculately tailored figure who seems to be everywhere yet remains cool amid the hubbub, warns two tailors not to put so many stitches in a vibrant aqua trench coat. "Every stitch can pull," he sighs. "Silk is a very hard fabric to tailor...